Alison Hirschel, senior legal counsel to the Michigan Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, in Health Exec's: "Nursing homes using hospitals as middlemen to bounce low-reimbursement, high-maintenance residents"

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Mon, 09/21/2020
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“We have been seeing these kinds of illegal discharges all the time, because nursing homes seem to have figured out that they will rarely, if ever, be penalized,” Alison Hirschel, senior legal counsel to the Michigan ombudsman program, tells the Times. “It’s devastating for residents and their families all the time, but it’s especially horrible and dangerous during a pandemic.” Read the full article here.